Trump wants his administration to be transparent. But this takes things to a whole new level.
And president Trump has released these top secret documents that left jaws on the floor.
New JFK Files Spark Fresh Intrigue in Decades-Old Mystery
More than six decades after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, a massive collection of once-secret documents has ignited a renewed hunt for answers in one of America’s most enduring enigmas. On Tuesday, President Trump unveiled tens of thousands of previously classified files on the National Archives website, offering a sprawling archive that spans years of investigations, theories, and whispers about the shocking 1963 crime.
While much of the trove seems to reinforce details long etched into public knowledge, a few tantalizing fragments have captured attention, hinting at shadowy possibilities. Among them are records that fuel speculation about a rogue faction within the CIA and a Soviet probe into whether Lee Harvey Oswald, Kennedy’s k*ller, was a Kremlin operative.
One chilling memo, dated June 1967, recounts the frantic actions of Gary Underhill, a former U.S. Army intelligence officer. The day after Kennedy’s death, Underhill bolted from Washington, D.C., in a state of distress.
That night, he arrived at a friend’s doorstep in New Jersey, visibly shaken. “He was very agitated. A small clique within the CIA was responsible for the assassination, he confided, and he was afraid for his life and probably would have to leave the country,” the memo reveals.
Less than six months later, Underhill was discovered dead in his Washington apartment, a gunshot wound behind his left ear. The coroner deemed it su*cide—a ruling that raised eyebrows, especially since his writing partner, Asher Brynes, who found the body, noted, “Underhill was right-handed.”
Underhill’s credentials added weight to his claims. A World War II Army captain turned intelligence operative, he reportedly rubbed shoulders with Pentagon elites and maintained close ties with senior CIA figures.
According to the memo, friends who saw him that night in New Jersey described him as sober but rattled, convinced that a CIA faction involved in a profitable underworld of arms trafficking, drugs, and contraband had orchestrated Kennedy’s death. The theory? Kennedy had stumbled onto their scheme and was silenced before he could expose it.
Elsewhere in the files, a 1991 U.S. intelligence teletype sheds light on a Soviet angle. A KGB official named Nikonov had dug into Oswald’s past to determine if the assassin was one of their own.
“Nikonov is now confident that Oswald was at no time an agent controlled by the KGB,” the document states, though he added that the Soviets kept Oswald under tight surveillance during his time in the USSR.
Nikonov painted a picture of an erratic man—uncontrollable, a lousy marksman, and locked in a turbulent marriage to a Soviet wife who “rode him incessantly.” Oswald, a former Marine who defected to the Soviet Union in 1959, had returned to the U.S. before firing the fatal shots at Kennedy from a Dallas book depository in 1963.
The release also includes a “secret” file tracking an Italian newspaper’s bold claim that the CIA itself masterminded the m*rder of the 35th president. Other documents peel back the curtain on the spy world of the 1960s, revealing CIA outposts across the globe and the agency’s monitoring of a Cuban operative, AMFUANA-1, who built a 20-person network that churned out dozens of reports after infiltrating Cuba in 1961.
Most of the newly public files tie back to the Warren Commission, the 1964 panel led by Chief Justice Earl Warren that concluded Oswald acted alone.
Yet that official narrative has never fully settled the public’s doubts. Surveys consistently show most Americans suspect a conspiracy, with fingers pointed at everyone from the Mafia to rogue CIA elements to furious Cuban exiles.
The release marks a milestone in a decades-long push for transparency. Under a 1992 law, Congress set a 2017 deadline to unseal the JFK files. Trump began chipping away at the vault, releasing 19,000 documents in 2018, while Biden followed suit with over 13,000 more by late 2022.
Still, a handful remained hidden, stoking pressure from transparency advocates like former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Before this week’s disclosure, the National Archives estimated that 98% of the records were public—a promise Trump doubled down on in his second term.
For now, the latest batch offers both clarity and fresh questions, ensuring the JFK saga remains a puzzle that refuses to fade.
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